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I've been experiencing some Celiac-like symptoms for a while now and could use some help making sense of these test results.

Some history:

I had a partial thyroidectomy 13 years ago (benign Follicular Adenoma). I take Synthroid 112 mcg daily. About 3 years ago, I starting experiencing hair loss, which my doctor attributed this to my throid and increased my synthroid. Then, I starting having numbness in my feet. My endo was concerned and ran what seemed like a million tests to discover that I was Vitamin B12 deficient. She told me to take OTC megadoses and then retested me to find I was still deficient. She prescribed B12 injections. The B12 seems to have stabilized, but still isn't ideal. Then, she tested my Vitamin D and found I was severally deficient there. OTC prescribed with no improvement. Prescription Vitamin D (50,000 Iu) every 7 days and then retested. I was still deficient and now my calcium was dangerously low, probably due to low D. Continued with the Vitamin D megadoses and then retested-both D and Calcium dangerously low and now my TSH is out of whack. The endo had me increase the D to 50,000 Iu every 5 days and add 600 mg of Calcium every night. She said she won't increase my Synthroid because she doesn't think I'm absorbing it and then referred me to a GI.

I meet with the Gi who asks me about other symptoms. I report heartburn, flipping between consitpation and diarrhea, gas and bloating...He orders the blood test below and schedules an EGD.

After the EGD, the GI tells me that I have esophagitis and a gastric ulcer. They pulled tissue samples for a biopsy. He started me on a PPI to heal the ulcer. I heard from the nurse practitioner today, my biopsy results show lympohcytes indicative of early Celiac Disease but I have negative blood tests. I return to the doctor this Wednesday.